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And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:15

The Father in His perfect love has promised all of His children an eternal inheritance in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit is given to Christians as the guarantee of this inheritance75_.

Paul was overwhelmed at the riches of the glory of this incredible inheritance76_.

In Hebrew history, all the property, resources and substance of the father would be given as an inheritance to his sons upon his death. In most cases, the first-born son had the birth right to receive the authority of the father and he became the ruler of the household. Portions were distributed to all the sons and the first-born received a double portion. Jesus Christ is the first-born Son of the Father and He has received the authority over all the substance of His Father. In the New Covenant, by the sacrifice of Jesus, believers of both genders are adopted sons through faith in Christ Jesus77_{. Women believers have an}

equal portion of inheritance along with male believers. This inheritance is eternal and gives us great grace as sons of God to dwell with the Father and be in His household forever.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs -- heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. Romans 8:16,17

We are joint heirs with Christ and we will have aspects of rulership delegated to us so that we may reign with Christ for all eternity in glory. Meanwhile, we must walk yoked with Jesus and those who do will experience temporal suffering through the trials and tribulations of this fallen world.

God is training us to be priests and kings. We are called to worship and pray and have relationship to the Godhead. Flowing out of that relationship, we are to grow up and walk as kings on earth. The primary anointing of New Covenant kings is seen in Jesus’ calling to set the captives free.

And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”

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Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” Luke 4:17-22

Jesus demonstrated earthly kingship by advancing God’s kingdom through preaching the gospel, healing the sick and setting people free from Satan’s power. We are called to walk as He walked during our time on earth78_{. We can already walk in parts of our}

eternal inheritance now by advancing God’s kingdom on earth.

Walking as kings we are to do the works of the Father. This includes speaking the words of God, teaching His word with authority, praying for the sick with power, delivering the demonized, searching out matters of the Spirit, administering justice and helping the poor. God will raise up kings in every aspect of society but His anointing is given to demonstrate His perfect love to people lost, lonely and in bondage to sin.

As we walk with the Lord as kings, He will give us powerful prophetic decrees to declare. Anointed decrees loose His words like a two-edged sword which will enable some of us to ride with Jesus to judge and deliver this world from evil79_.

Maturity is the Key to Walking in Inheritance on Earth

Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Galatians 4:1-7

Jesus demonstrated the anointing of a mature Son who started to walk in His inheritance while on earth doing the works of the Father. As co-heirs with Christ, we can walk in powerful anointings and mantles if we mature. There are two primary aspects to maturity. First we must develop Christ-like character which includes the fruit of the Spirit.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Galatians 5:22-26

We are called to conform to the image of Christ in His character. As we walk governed by the Holy Spirit in daily life, He will produce fruit in us over time. This will require that we learn to die to the flesh with its passions and desires. If you want to walk as a king, you will have to learn to deny yourself, take up your cross daily and follow Jesus.

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This results in a lifestyle of humble servanthood. Earthly spiritual kings walk in gentleness and holiness in addition to authority and power.

The second aspect of maturity is to grow in biblical wisdom, develop spiritual senses, and understand the ways of the Holy Spirit. “But solid food belongs to those who are of

full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Hebrews 5:14).

Biblical wisdom comes through knowing and properly applying the truths of God’s word over time. Just as a mighty oak tree does not grow in a day, most believers cannot attain God’s wisdom and grow over night. God does touch some with amazing wisdom early in their Christian life, but most have to sow and reap in the word in order to harvest wisdom over time.

Developing spiritual senses is similar to human development as an infant grows to understand the five physical senses. It takes years before a child can hear with understanding and communicate with appropriate language skills. A child has to learn how to please his or her parents and stay within the boundaries set by them.

We have to learn how to hear and communicate with the Holy Spirit. We need to learn how to discern the spiritual realm around us and what is going on in that realm. We have to learn the ways of the Holy Spirit and stay within the boundaries of His word and leading.

As we mature, we experience fiery trials and tests of our faith at different levels. God uses these times to develop us and see if we are mature enough to handle higher levels of mantles of power.

A child is not ready to drive the family car. There must be physical maturity, training and testing before a young person will be issued a driver’s license. As a father of six children, I did not hand the car keys over to any of my children until they had successfully achieved the state requirements and obtained the appropriate documents. Once they had, they were given greater authority and power to drive the family car which is similar to flowing in anointing and inheritance.

God has so many powerful vehicles available that we could drive in if we would develop in character and maturity in the ways of the Holy Spirit. Before the Lord returns, God is going to release the most powerful harvest mantles ever seen so that hundreds of millions can be netted into His kingdom. Extraordinary healing and miracle power will flow through many who have been tested by God’s fire and learned to walk with the Holy Spirit. This will manifest God’s goodness in a way that will cause many to come to Christ. Jesus asked for the nations as His inheritance and we get to partake in this by winning souls to Him and for Him80_.

CONCLUSION: APPROPRIATING THE BENEFITS OF PERFECT LOVE

The Father of us all, in perfect love and perfect wisdom made a perfect covenant with us through the cross of His perfect Son, Jesus Christ. The benefits of the cross are complete and perfect in every way. There is nothing else God is going to accomplish for us through His Son’s earthly life.

Everything Jesus Christ accomplished for us is a finished fact forever. By His stripes we have been healed. It is a past tense done deal! All the blessings and benefits are paid for in full and we have a legal right to access all of them through faith in God right now. In this book we have examined nine central benefits of the Lord’s perfect love. There are more benefits to discover than these nine, but these are the core of what He paid for. Once again they are:

1. A Perfect Covenant - God’s promises in Christ are all yes and amen 2. Salvation – The forgiveness of sins, saved from eternal damnation 3. Righteousness - Right standing before God

4. Regeneration – New life and new identity

5. Sanctification – The grace to grow to become like Jesus 6. Healing and Divine Health - Kingdom health and energy

7. Blessings and Wealth - Extraordinary blessings by the grace of God 8. Gifts and Glory - The power to do the works of the Father

9. An Eternal Inheritance - The grace to reign and rule with Christ as a son

All of these benefits and more are available to those who appropriate them from God. We have talked about how to cash in on these benefits through persevering prayer and appropriate action steps of faith. You can know that a healing provision is there for you but not know how to obtain it. If you don’t bring it into the natural realm while you are alive on earth, it will not benefit you. These blessings are available now. We need to learn how to obtain them now. There have been principles throughout this book to help you appropriate these blessings that we can review.

The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. Psalm 25:14

God will reveal the covenant to those who fear Him, to those who seek to please God above all things. They throw down idols and devote themselves to God wholeheartedly. They only seek to do those things which He reveals and that are pleasing in His sight. God opens up the revelation of His word and Spirit to those who fear Him!

Study God’s Word

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. II Timothy 2:15 KJV

Every maturing Christian needs to study God’s word diligently to know God. The word of God is living revelation that feeds our spirit man and enables us to know God and His covenant. There are aspects of God that are mysterious and hidden, but what He has revealed in His word is available for every believer to study and discover.

Meditate on God’s word and ask the Holy Spirit to unveil the meaning. I meditate on God’s word by asking practical questions that come from a hungry heart. Simple questions such as, “What does that mean?” , “How can I apply that?” “What does that word mean?” etc. are common in my study. I use computer tools to help me study God’s word81_{. There are incredible resources available today.}

God has called me to be a teacher in the body of Christ and therefore I must study the word of God more than most. During my first 24 years of walking with God, I was primarily associated with conservative evangelicals. During the last 10 years, I have been primarily associated with full gospel Pentecostals. Evangelicals tend to be strong in bible study and weak in understanding the ways of the Holy Spirit. Pentecostals can be strong in the ways of the Holy Spirit but weak in diligent bible study. God wants both strengths to come together.

The word of God exhorts us throughout to diligently study God’s word and search out matters of the word and the Spirit. One of the central keys to accomplishing your destiny on earth is to study God’s word. He won’t do it for you! If you treasure His word like fine gold and eat it like the best food in the world, God will reward you greatly with wisdom, knowledge and Christ-like maturity in due season.

The first step of appropriating God’s benefits is to study God’s word and know the benefits by meditating on them. The second step is to know the specific revelation of the Holy Spirit which comes when you pay a price in prayer to buy His gold.

Go Buy Gold - Pray

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich. Revelation 13:18a

God’s gold is heavenly revelation that comes by the Holy Spirit. It will include understanding His word, but the revelation of His word becomes extremely alive and powerful in your spirit. God will release prophetic promises and wisdom that gives you keys to unlock kingdom resources and shut down demonic resistance.

As we behold Him by revelation, we begin to be transformed to become like Him82_{. The}

price of spiritual gold involves intense intercession and waiting on God for His revelation. It may include fasting and night watches of prayer. Revelation from God is

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more precious than fine gold83_{. If you truly value His gold, you will pay the price of}

diligent prayer and bible study to get it.

When you place faith and obedience in the living word of God, you are actually tapping into the increasing impartation of the divine nature which comes through faith and obedience in that living word. God wants our inner man to be conformed to the life of Jesus until we are filled to all the fullness of God84_.

We buy the gold by earnestly seeking God through praying and meditating on His word until His voice speaks to us. As we hear the word united in faith and become doers of that word, trials of fire come to prove that our faith is genuine. Once proved in this manner, we overcome and our inner man is transformed to conform to the character and nature of Jesus Christ. Then we become rich on the inside.

In order to know God’s perfect love, His perfect covenant and His perfect plan, we have to pay the price of seeking Him diligently. Then we will hear Him and become partakers of the divine nature85_{. Believing and appropriating God’s covenant promises enable us to}

become partakers of the divine nature. All the promises in the Bible are yes and amen in Christ Jesus86_{. For a promise to be fulfilled in your life, your faith must stand firm in the}

integrity of God’s word.

Fight the Good Fight of Faith

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

I Timothy 6:12

In our quest to obtain what God has already paid for in Christ, we discover spiritual resistance and temporal delays. Part of fighting the good fight of faith is to war with a “good confession” what God says. There has been great teaching on this in the past decades. We must believe in our hearts, deep in our spirits and out of that inner conviction, confess with our mouth unto the place where the benefit manifests87_.

Some have tried to make positive biblical confessions out of their heads. It will not be effective until it comes from the heart. The heart must often be broken up by the cold steel plow of tribulation inch by inch and row by row. Through faith and patience we inherit promises. We need patience so the Lord allows tribulation to produce it. A broken and contrite heart He does not despise. God can speak His word directly into a tender heart and that living seed will produce good fruit.

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Out of the cultivated heart that receives the living seed word and nurtures it through the trials and storms to maturity, the mouth will speak spiritual life. The living declared word that comes from a holy heart will activate heaven to accomplish the word spoken. As we fight the good fight of faith, we are cultivating our hearts, receiving God’s word and making declarations of faith in what God is saying. In spite of all the evidence to the contrary in the natural realm, we stand on the living word of God and wield it as the sword of the Spirit to cut through the lies of the evil one who continues to challenge us saying, “Did God really say…?” 88

Abraham had to fight the good fight of faith for many years. God promised him a son through his own body which became incapable of producing seed. Sarah’s womb was barren and became completely dead. Abraham fought to hold onto God’s prophetic promise and was accounted righteous as a result. We have prophetic promises as well and need to walk in the steps of Abraham.

Abraham did not meditate on the deadness of his own body nor Sarah’s barrenness.